1. Liaison Report - CODATA Committee of Data for Science and Technology, International Council for Science

2. EO Outreach Tasks for 2006 OR-06-06: In coordination with the outreach campaign, engage in a series of regular media roundtables and briefings and occasional well-timed press conferences and special events.

3. CODATA 2006 Conference Beijing, 23-25 October 2006

4. Proposal for Sessions of the 20th CODATA Conference Title of Sessions: CEOS/WGISS Data Resources, Technology and Services (1) and (2)

5. Proposal for Sessions of the 20th CODATA Conference Abstract: The session (1) (2) of CEOS/WGISS (Committee of Earth Observation Satellites/Working Group of Information Systems and Services) data resources, technology and services will have 9 invited speakers from the CEOS/WIGSS partners in two physical sessions. The sessions will present the most resent information about the remote sensing data resources, technology and services from CEOS/WGISS contributed by more than 40 space agencies in the world.

6. Proposal for Sessions of the 20th CODATA Conference Co-Chairs: John Faundeen, EROS Data Center, USGS, Former WGISS Chair Tel: 605-594-6092/Fax: 707-222-0223 Email: faundeen@usgs.gov LIU Dingsheng, Remote Sensing Ground Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice Chair of Technology and Services Subgroup, WIGSS Tel: 86-10-62652103 Email: dsliu@ne.rsgs.ac.cn

7. Session Chair and the Invited Speaker at WGISS/CEOS Session I WGISS Session I: Chair: Dingsheng Liu, RSGS/CAS, China Invited Speakers: 1. John Foundeen, EROS Data Center, USGS, Former WGISS Chair Topic: GeoData Archiving and Long-term Preservation 2. SHAO Liqin, China Office for CEOS and National Remote Sensing Center of China, Secretary General of China Office for CEOS Topic: Progress of Remote Sensing Data Sharing in China 3. Liping Di, NASA and George Mason University, USA, Topic: Landsat OGC Portal 4. Hiromichi Fukui, JAXA and Keio University, Japan Topic: 5. Pakorn Apaphant, GISTDA, Thailand Topic: Satellite Image Network for Natural Disaster Management, PA Subgroup/WGISS

8. WGISS Session 2: Chair: John Foundeen, USGS, USA Invited Speakers: 6. David Clarck, NOAA, USA, WDC and eGY Liaison of WGISS Topic: NOAAS Future Data Activities: Petabyte Archives, Metadata and Systems Integration 7. LIU Dingsheng, RSGS/CAS, China, Vice Chair of Technology and Services subgroup of WIGSS Topic: Technology and Services of WGISS (Co-author: Paul Kopp) 8. Ken McDonald, NASA, USA, WGISS Chair selected Topic: Advances in Data Integration for Earth Science Research (co-authors: L. Di, Y. Enloe, D. Holloway) 9. LIU Chuang, IGSNRR/CAS, China, Co-User Vice Chair and CODATA Liaison of WGISS Topic: End User Oriented Applications of WGISS Data and Systems (Co-author: L. Czaran ) Summary: John Foundeen and LIU Dengsheng Reporter: LIU Chuang

9. CODATA PRIORITY AERA AND TASK GROUPS ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA AND ENGINEERING LOW DIMENSIONAL (INCLUDING NANO SCALE) MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES DATA NETWORK DATA INFORMATION AND VISUALISATION DATA SOURCES IN ASIAN-OCEANIC COUNTRIES ACCESS TO BIOLOGICAL COLLECTION DATA (ABCD) A joint CODATA and TDWG initiative supported by GBIF and BioCASEACCESS TO BIOLOGICAL COLLECTION DATA (ABCD)CODATATDWGGBIFBioCASE GLOBAL SPECIES DATA NETWORKS PRESERVATION OF AND ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES VIRTUAL LABORATORIES IN EARTH PHYSICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DATA ON NATURAL GAS HYDRATES FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL CONSTANTS The Executive Committee may set up CODATA Working Groups to investigage immediate short-term problems. At the April 2005 Executive Committee meeting, the following Working Group was approved: Working Group: UV/VIS+ SPECTRA DATA BASE

10. CODATA National Members Brazil Brazil The Academia Brasileira de Ciências Cameroon Cameroon The Cameroon Academy of Sciences Canada Canada National Research Council of Canada Canadian National Member Website Canadian National Member Website China: Chinese Academy of Sciences China: Chinese Academy of Sciences - Chinese Academy of Sciences National Website Chinese Academy of Sciences National Website China: Academia Sinica, Academy located in Taiwan China, Academia Sinica, Taipei National Member Website Czech Republic Czech Republic Office of the Government of the Czech Republic France France Académie des Sciences French National Member Website French National Member Website Georgia Georgia Georgian Academy of Sciences India India Indian National Science Academy Indonesia Indonesia Lembaga llmu Pengatahuan Ireland Ireland Royal Irish Academy Israel Israel Israel Academy of Science and Humanities Italy Italy Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Japan Japan Science Council of Japan Korea Korea Korean Institute of S&T Information Korean National Member Website Korean National Member Website Nigeria Nigeria Nigerian Academy of Science Poland Poland Polish Academy of Sciences RussiaRussia Russian Academy of Sciences Senegal South Africa South Africa National Research Foundation South African National Member Website South African National Member Website Thailand Thailand National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Ukraine Ukraine National Academy of Sciences United StatesUnited States National Academy of Sciences United States National Member Website United States National Member Website

11. CODATA International Scientific Unions International Astronomical Union (IAU)IAU International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)IUPAP International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) IUBS International Geographical Union (IGU)IGU International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)IUCr International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)IUBMB International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)IUGS International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)IUPsyS International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB)IUPAB International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS)IUNS International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR)IUPHAR International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)IUIS International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS)IUMS International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) IUSS

12. CODATA Co-Opted Organizations ICSU Panel on World Data Centers (WDC) WDC Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Services (FAGS)FAGS International Council of Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)ICSTI World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC)World Federation for Culture Collections

13. CODATA Supporting Organizations CLASS A BIOSIS UK - Zoological Record Defense Technical Information Center International Atomic Energy Agency Science & Technology Information Center (SCITIC), Springer Verlag GmbH All Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI) CLASS B CERET Chemical Abstracts Service Fachinformationszentrum Chemie, GmbH (FIZCHEMIE) Japan Association for International Chemical Information(JAICI) Russian Research Center for Standardization, Information & Certification of Materials (VNITS SMV) STROYTEKS Group of Companies CLASS C Centre de Documentation de l'Armement, Paris (CEDOCAR) Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear Design Institute for Physical Property Data Institute for Physical Property Data (DIPPR) Engineering Information, Inc. National Centre for Science Information (N.C.S.I.) Office of Japan Society for CODATA, Japan Society of Information & Knowledge Protein Data Bank Japan International Protein Information Database (JIPID- PIR International)

14. CODATA Official Journal

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